Anyone use a Harvey deprimer?

[Guest Travtastik]

Ran across a add for this in a copy of hand loader magazine and was thinking about giving it a try. Anyone ever used one?

[Hi Point Hooligan]

Well I have about 6500 9MM cases that I need to process. So that being said I ordered one... we shall see... wonder how it does with crimped primers?

[glockster157]

Wow, 6500 cases....let us know, I have thought of getting one myself as I have a 5 gallon bucket and several bags of brass that needs depriming.

[Dolomite_supafly]

Seems like a lot of hand pinching is going to happen.

Dolomite

[Hi Point Hooligan]

Ok, I just placed the order the other day.,. and they said it is on it's way...so I will give it a spin and let you guys know... not going to do the whole lot of brass with it... but it would be nice not to be in the basement.....

[Dolomite_supafly]

You are still going to be in the basement when you go to size the brass. I just think it is an unneeded step.

I just can't figure out why you would want to deprime the cases first when the sizing die does it during the sizing process. You are still going to have to size the brass.

Dolomite

[Volzfan]

http://youtu.be/-TbbhmgNzGA

[jb980]

So where do the spent primer go. Are they shot across the room or do you have to empty it out every few rounds?

[Dolomite_supafly]

So where do the spent primer go. Are they shot across the room or do you have to empty it out every few rounds?

Hopefully they have enough escape velocity to exit our world and land in another dimension.

But it really looks like they just pop out onto the ground.

Dolomite

[Guest Travtastik]

Hopefully they have enough escape velocity to exit our world and land in another dimension.

Dolomite

I think that model cost a little more.

It is adding a step but I don't see it as a big deal running on a progressive press. I like that I can use it away from home, and away from the bench if needed.

[Garufa]

I just can't figure out why you would want to deprime the cases first when the sizing die does it during the sizing process. You are still going to have to size the brass.

Dolomite

Maybe if you have a bunch of filthy brass and like to tumble after depriming? That way you wouldn't foul up the sizing/depriming die.

[glockster157]

i want it for military brass. So can swage the primer pockets before I clean them. Also sometimes that brass will fight you in the press. I have also encountered some Berdan primed cases mixed in and using a progressive I have broken the decapping pins before I caught it. But I agree that if the primer just pops out onto the ground it can't be in my carpeted living room.

[chances R]

Does the girl come with it?

[Hi Point Hooligan]

Well here is what I am thinking. Pop the primers, then put the brass in the ultra sonic cleaner, to clean the cases and primer pockets. The reason that I wanted this is so I could watch TV and de-prime... could be more trouble than it is worth..

[Guest Lester Weevils]

The Harvey design looks similar to the leverage principle of the dillon military crimp swager tool. Perhaps it would work pretty efficient sitting with a trash bucket between the feet, popping primers into the bucket like shucking peas.

Couple of years ago saw a few hand-deprimers specialized for certain calibers, that looked like funky-shaped pliers. Those seemed marketed toward cowboy rounds and people who like to load a few rounds right at the shooting bench.

I've been depriming for the last year or so with a lee hand press and universal deprime die. Maybe the Harvey is quicker. It is smaller than the lee hand press. Am guessing the lee hand press can deprime just as fast as the Harvey, however. Or real close to the same speed.

I tumble, hand-deprime, hand-prime, and load on the dillon square deal b progressive. Removed the deprime pin from the size die on the SDB, so it works fine with clean primed brass. Started doing that so I could uniform the primer pockets between deprime and prime steps. Am happier with primer seating after starting doing it thataway.

The extra steps take more time, but some time is regained because with primed brass I can output loaded rounds much faster with the dillon. Not having to fill the dillon primer tubes and not having to take so much time feeling for the primer seating on the dillon. The RCBS hand prime tool has a better feel and seats more consistently, especially with uniformed primer pockets.

Before getting the lee hand press for depriming, for awhile would size-deprime out in the shop on the dillon in one pass, then take the brass back in the house to watch tv and uniform the brass, then take it back out to the dillon to prime and complete loading, but I can shuck out the primers in the living room with the lee hand press quicker than standing up at the bench working the cases thru the dillon.

I want to start marking the uniformed cases and try running them thru the dillon without uniforming "the second time around" to see if once uniformed, loading/priming goes faster/better on the dillon without the extra steps.

Edited September 8, 2012 by Lester Weevils